Monday, October 22, 2007

The girls at the universitytold me that if you eat the salty cake,you will marry the person in your dreamwho brings you a glass of water.But what if someone you despise brings you the water?What if a girl brings it to you?What if your mother father brother sister (or other assorted relative) brings it? they giggled and I asked, what if you wake up and get the glass of water yourself?

But now I wonder what would happen if you dream of a differentperson every year or a whole mob delivers the water or what if you're already married/don't believe in marriage/wished marriage never existed? What if you tell a Jungian psychologist about your dream andhe replies that you are incredibly boring?What if the person fetching you the water represents some aspect of yourself, the part of you that actually loves the 90% of yourself that is composed water?What if your lover like lightning regularly appears with sweet juice mixed with water the way you like it when you wake in the night, mouth dry, half sighing?What if on February 3rd you refuse the salty cake the mother of your betrothed has baked but shefeeds you peanuts and popcorn instead and you dream of tornadoes whipping through Manhattan, two of the twisters combining and you cannot think of a place to hide so instead you must watch the destruction from across the wide East River in Brooklyn, your home.

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